[2ion]

After looking for something similar I have been playing Hedgewars https://www.hedgewars.org/ which is Hogs instead of Worms, an interesting code base and play mode addons based on Lua. Not looking back to Worms. There's a nice European userbase and if you tune in at hedgehog hour (8pm time in CEST/CET) you'll have some fine company.

My favourite mod is Monarchy: https://www.hedgewars.org/node/6718#comment-34937.

[joshvm]

We used to play 2-player liero over the school LAN. It was great because it'd fit a 3.5" floppy disk and was totally portable. It's real time worms, and apparently inspired Noita.

Though reading up apparently it didn't have LAN play, so maybe we just did splitscreen?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero

[kibwen]

You can actually play Liero online and in the browser! https://www.webliero.com/

[tuco86]

hedgewars is awesome. lived with 3 friends and installed this on our beamer in the living room. Competition is fierce still, in 5+ years nobody would even change team once. we lost track of score 3 years into the competition tho.

[fyfy18]

What does "beamer" in this context mean? Where I'm from it is slang for a BMW car, which I'm guessing you don't have in your living room.

[tobias2014]

It's German (pseudo-anglicism) for video projector.

[StavrosK]

I just tried that but the movement feels markedly worse than Worms, and the game feels much less polished overall. Is it still fun despite that?

[2ion]

For me it is? But take that as coming from a guy who literally has been playing 3 games (Xonotic/Nexuiz, tome4 and Hedgewars) in the past 5 years on and off, and nothing else.